USB memory sticks get mounted as read only

[Matt Morgan]

On Nov 28, 2007 6:41 PM, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007 09:30:29 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 29/11/2007, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:44:52 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > > Some USB memory sticks get mounted as read only. Why? How to
> > > > fix this: 1) So it won't happen again?
> > > > 2) So that I can write to disks that get mounted this way?
> > >
> > > On my AMD64 Gutsy the effect is intermittent.
> > > I could not get my stick recognised at all.  Then  it  was  seen,
> > > but read-only and I  couldn't even copy from it.
> > > Yesterday I  tried my USB hard drive with success and  later the
> > > stick was OK.  Still OK today.  Go figure.
> >
> > That mimicks my machine's behaviour as well, under Feisty.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://what-is-what.com
> > http://gibberish.co.il
> > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
> >
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
>
> Hi Guys
>
> Maybe once it's mounted right click on it's icon and check the ownership and
> permissions. Likely this is the issue. You may have to change them as super
> user
>
> James
>
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Have you guys tried this:

http://linuxblog.pansapiens.com/2007/10/22/mounting-usb-key-in-ubuntu-gutsy-710-the-usefree-error/

(brought to this list's attention in a recent thread--search for
'usefree'). Worked for me.